Poisonous gas prevented rescuers from descending into an abandoned coal mine in Bengal’s Kulti area on Tuesday to extricate three persons trapped since Sunday afternoon amid fears that they could be dead, officials said.
The shaft through which the three men descended is also too narrow to allow deployment of rescue equipment, officials said.
Santosh Marandi, Kalicharan Kisku and Binay Murmu, all locals descended into an illegal coal mine at Aknabagan in Kulti area, about 230 kilometers northwest of Kolkata.
